2014年11月11日 星期二

2014-11-12 U.S. Spotlight

  PBS NewsHour   
Obama, Putin circle each other warily in China  PBS NewsHour
Russia's President Vladimir Putin walks past as US President Barack Obama at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group in China Friday. Photo by Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images. BEIJING — On the surface, President Barack Obama and Russian ...


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  New York Times   
In Tokyo, Following Elders to Bargains  New York Times
One of Tokyo's mainstay tourist attractions is Harajuku, a labyrinthine shopping district jammed with trend-obsessed teenagers parading famously outlandish fashions. But in spite of Harajuku's youthful flash and flair, to walk around the city is to realize that ...


   


How Green Are Those Solar Panels, Really?  National Geographic
Workers install solar panels in California. Although solar energy is a clean alternative to fossil fuels, making the panels themselves can have a negative environmental impact. Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic Creative. Christina Nunez.

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Tower of London's Evolving Poppy Art Installation  ABC News
Crawford Butler, the longest serving Yeoman Warden at the Tower of London, poses with the first ceramic poppy to be 'planted' in the dry moat at Tower of London, July 17, 2014, in London. The poppy is the first of 888,246 created by artist Paul Cummins to ...


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  The Guardian   
Serial: listeners of podcast phenomenon turn detectives – with troubling results  The Guardian
Based on a real-life murder, Serial has captivated listeners around the world. But when the show's fans started doing their own investigations on Reddit, it took the phenomenon into uncharted waters. This American Life's first spinoff podcast: 'I don't know ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
Vets reveal the stories in their tattoos in new exhibit 'War Ink'  PBS NewsHour
Navy veteran Joel Booth served with distinction until he was injured in an IED attack in July 2011. He is now training to become a paramedic. Photo courtesy of Johann Wolf. As the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan prepares to wind down later this year, ...


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  Slate Magazine (blog)   
All Your Questions About Interstellar, Answered.  Slate Magazine (blog)
Interstellar, as everyone has noted, is a stupendously ambitious movie. It's also pretty complicated—and not just because of the science involved. If you're like us, you probably walked out of the theater with a bunch of questions. We try to answer a number of ...


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  TIME   
Assassin's Creed Unity Review  TIME
I'm perched on a Notre Dame gargoyle, Batman-like, some 70 meters above a rabble-thronged square. From here I can see the gabled roof of the Palais de Justice and Sainte-Chapelle, the royal church's spire the next highest object punctuating Paris's ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
Obama visits Beijing on push to expand trade with Asia – Part 1  PBS NewsHour
President Obama began a week-long trip to Asia and Australia with hopes of boosting U.S. influence and commercial ties in the region. At the APEC summit, he tried to reassure China that the U.S. welcomes rising Chinese economic prosperity and ...


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The Legacy of Fear  New York Times
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the biggest surprise is how badly most of the post-communist nations have done since. There was a general expectation back then that most of these countries would step out from tyranny and rejoin the ...


   

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